The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 8

In the autumn the woodcutters used to come and hew some of the tallest trees; this happened every year, and the young fir-tree would shiver as the magnificent trees fell crashing and crackling to the ground, their branches hewn off, and the great trunks left bare, so that they were almost unrecognisable.

Who acts: woodcutters, this, young fir tree, magnificent trees, great trunks, trunks · What happens: use, come, hew, happen, shiver, fall · To what, where: some, branches

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodcutters, this, young fir tree, magnificent trees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 autumn	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 autumn	det
3	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woodcutters	det
5	woodcutters	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 used	nsubj
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 come	mark
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hew	cc
10	hew	hew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	conj
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 hew	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 trees	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trees	det
14	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 trees	amod
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 some	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 happened	punct
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 happened	nsubj
18	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 used	conj
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 year	det
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 happened	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shiver	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shiver	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tree	det
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tree	amod
25	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tree	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 fir	punct
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shiver	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 shiver	aux
29	shiver	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	parataxis
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 fell	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trees	det
32	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 trees	amod
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fell	nsubj
34	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 shiver	advcl
35	crashing	crash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 fell	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 crackling	cc
37	crackling	crackle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 crashing	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 ground	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ground	det
40	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 crackling	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 branches	punct
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 branches	nmod:poss
43	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 crashing	obl
44	hewn	hewn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 branches	acl
45	off	off	ADP	_	44 hewn	compound:prt
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 left	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 left	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 trunks	det
49	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 trunks	amod
50	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 left	nsubj
51	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 used	conj
52	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 left	xcomp
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 unrecognisable	punct
54	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	59 unrecognisable	mark
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 so	fixed
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 unrecognisable	nsubj
57	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 unrecognisable	cop
58	almost	almost	ADV	_	59 unrecognisable	advmod
59	unrecognisable	unrecognisable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 left	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	the woodcutters		autumn		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	come	to-infinitive	the woodcutters not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hew	infinitive	the woodcutters not said here	some			vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
4	happen	past	this		year		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shiver	would	the young fir tree				vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	fall	past	the magnificent trees				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	crash	gerund	the magnificent trees not said here	woodcutters's branches			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	crackle	gerund	the magnificent trees not said here			to the ground	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	hewn off	participle		woodcutters's branches not said here			tree rules
10	leave	participle	the great trunks			bare property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	is	past	trunks = trunk			almost, unrecognisable property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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